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Suggested Outreach Opportunities
This page last reviewed January 12, 2010
This page provides suggested outreach opportunities for land and air quality managers to use in the 1-2 months prior to a specific fuels treatment project. At this stage of outreach, the information should provide detailed information on a specific project.
Scope of Information:
- Focus on one project
- Specific burn information
- Alternatives employed before, during and after the burn
- How the land and air quality managers have been working together to minimize
the smoke impacts
- Share the Joint Message
- Details of the SMP for this specific burn
- Anticipated date of the burn
- Specific goals of the burn (Fact Sheet: The Benefits of Fire)
- Prescription conditions and considerations
- Smoke Impacts and Health Information
- What are possible impacts on the public (Fact Sheet: Smoke Management and Public Health)
- Where are the smoke impacts expected
- What should the public do if they experience smoke impacts
- Identify appropriate agency contacts through which the public can get more information
Target Audiences and Outreach Opportunities:
- Sensitive Receptors
- Continue collecting information from individuals identified as especially sensitive to smoke impacts
- Local Elected Officials
- Arrange a presentation for your local decision makers
- Public Health Officials
- Wildfire Smoke: A Guide for Public Health Officials
- Smoke Management and Public Health - Air Resources Board (ARB)
- Local Radio, Television and Print Media
- Develop relationships with the people who will share your information
- Feature articles on resource management
- Calendar of anticipated projects
- Inquire with public access television and radio stations about participating in a "community forum"
- Local Fire Safe Councils
- Work with your Fire Safe Council to help them deliver the Joint Message
- General Public
- Organize a town hall meeting
- Host a booth publicly attended events (parades, home and garden shows, fishing derbies, etc.)
- Provide educational resources, such as:
- Communities farther which may experience impacts
- Communities near the burn (Posters, door hangers, etc.)
- Include areas farther afield (Posters)
This page updated May 12,
2003.
SMP Public Outreach Protocol
